Citizen Kane

What more can you say about one of the defining masterworks of cinema? Problem is, theres been so much said, most of it dry and academic, that people can imagine Citizen Kane as an uninviting chore to be sat throughrather than something to enjoy. Forget what the video store clerks tell you about its historical significance; the fact is that Orson Welles 1941 portrait of an unscrupulous, Hearst-like newspaper tycoons rise and fall is fast, funny, and never ever dull. Note free admission with same-day receipt from a local LQA business, or $5 without. (NR) BRIAN MILLER